Pigeonhearted

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pigeon-hearted \Pi"geon-heart`ed\, a.
     Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. --Beau. & Fl.
     [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "pigeonhearted":
     afraid, chicken, chickenhearted, coward, cowardly, cowed, daunted,
     dismayed, fainthearted, fearful, funking, funky, henhearted,
     intimidated, lily-livered, milk-livered, milksoppish, milksoppy,
     mousy, overtimid, overtimorous, panic-prone, panicky, rabbity,
     sissified, sissy, soft, timid, timorous, unmanly, unmanned, weak,
     weak-kneed, weakhearted, white-livered, yellow